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News from the Executive Committee

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Dear MALCistas, In the coming weeks before our 2011 Institute, our website will feature a new section “News from the Exec” The MALCS Special Gathering launched an assessment of our organization that would address how we, as a national body, bridge all aspects of our work. The Special Gathering called for exploring new and existing … Read more

MALCS Summer Housing deadline is July 12

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Dear Conference Presenters and Attendees, This is a gentle reminder that the deadline for reserving on campus housing, or for reserving hotel rooms at either the Courtyard Marriott or the San Gabriel Hilton, is July 12.  After this time it may be very difficult to reserve housing in any of these three sites. I encourage … Read more

“I’m Neither Here nor There”: New Book by Patricia Zavella

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Check out a new title by UCSC Professor of Latino & LatAm Studies Patricia Zavella,  I‘m Neither Here nor There: Mexicans’ Quotidian Struggles with Migration and Poverty, published by Duke University Press. “One of the surprises was finding how diverse people were,” she said. Zavella, the outgoing chair of LALS, had shared an assumption that … Read more

2011 CSULA MALCS Summer Institute Aug 3-6 – Call for Workshops/Roundtables

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The Summer Institute is the highlight for MALCS membership. By creating an informal space for networking and learning, our goal is to work toward supporting Chicana/Latina and Native American women in various fields of work and activism and to develop and strengthen support in higher education. Promoting knowledge building, the MALCS 2011 Institute invites members … Read more

Call for Participants for WRITING WORKSHOP

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Chicana/Latina Studies: The Journal of Mujeres Activas en Letras y Cambio Social calls for participation in the Writing Workshop at the 2011 MALCS Summer Institute at California State University, Los Angeles, August 3-7, 2011.  DEADLINE: Postmark July 1, 2011

WHAT: Feminist collaboration for publication!
The Writing Workshop is one of the Journal’s formal methods of creating a feminist editorial process. Following the spirit and mission of MALCS, the journal’s editors offer the workshop in order to energize through collaboration, programmatically link scholarship and leadership, and institutionalize mentorship. Participants bring their work-in-progress and depart with clear recommendations for meeting internal criteria of Chicana/Latina Studies, specific direction about revision, and first-hand knowledge about our feminist editorial production process.
To create an intellectual community, prior to the workshop, participants read and commented on the material of the other writers. Attending both two-hour sessions (the first on Weds. Aug. 3, and the second on Friday Aug. 5) is required.
One Writing Workshop will be offered this summer:
1) The Academic Article: A Writing Workshop, facilitated by Dr. Karen Mary Davalos, former editor of Chicana/Latina Studies.
DATES and TIMES: Aug. 3 at 3:00-5:00 p.m. and Aug. 5 at 8:00-10:00 a.m.   Participants may arrive on Tuesday, Aug 2, but must contact the Cal State LA Site Committee to arrange housing. The workshop will begin at 3:00 p.m. on Weds., Aug. 3 and continue on Friday Aug. 5 at 8:00 a.m. of the MALCS Summer Institute. This schedule means that participants miss only one hour of the MALCS Summer Institute programs.
WHY: It really works!
Past participants who have been published in the journal are: Dora Ramirez-Dhoor (5:1), Rosalia Solorzano Torres (5:1), Ann Marie Leimer (5:2), Patricia Trullijo (6:1), Carmelita “Rosie” Castañeda (7:2), Marivel  Danielson (7:2), M. Bianet Castellanos (8: 1 & 2), and Rosa Furumoto (8: 1 & 2), and more!

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